Burundi’s Finance Minister, Audace Niyonzima, announced on Thursday that the country’s budget for the 2024/25 financial year, starting in July, will increase by 15.9% to 4.4 trillion Burundi francs ($1.5 billion). The significant rise is primarily attributed to the unfreezing of civil servants’ salary bonuses, which were previously frozen in 2015 due to sanctions imposed on the…
